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Quanta Image Sensor (QIS) is a single-photon detector designed for extremely low light imaging conditions. Majority of the existing QIS prototypes are monochrome based on single-photon avalanche diodes (SPAD). Passive color imaging has not…

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Image classification is a core task of intelligent sensing, conventionally follows a sequential imaging then processing pipeline. However, redundant high-dimensional image reconstruction is inherently inefficient, especially in photon…

A single photon source is a key enabling technology in device-independent quantum communication, quantum simulation for instance boson sampling, linear optics-based and measurement-based quantum computing. These applications involve many…

A single-photon CMOS image sensor design based on pinned photodiode (PPD) with multiple charge transfers and sampling is described. In the proposed pixel architecture, the photogenerated signal is sampled non-destructively multiple times…

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We demonstrate a compact and easy-to-build computational camera for single-shot 3D imaging. Our lensless system consists solely of a diffuser placed in front of a standard image sensor. Every point within the volumetric field-of-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Nick Antipa , Grace Kuo , Reinhard Heckel , Ben Mildenhall , Emrah Bostan , Ren Ng , Laura Waller

A Compton camera is the most promising approach for gamma-ray detection in the energy region from several hundred keV to MeV, especially for application in high energy astrophysics. In order to obtain good angular resolution, semiconductor…

A plug-and-play PhotonPix single-photon detector with a logical signal output is developed for applications requiring ultimate timing precision down to 10 ps over a wide dynamic photon flux range. The heart of the detector is an Exosens…

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This paper presents a quantum efficiency measurement setup based on a 2D motorized stage, a wide spectrum xenon lamp, a beam splitter system, and two calibrated photo-diodes for measuring the quantum efficiency (QE) of photomultiplier tubes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 P. Migliozzi , C. M. Mollo , A. Simonelli

Pixelated High Rate Picosecond Photon Detectors (HRPPDs) by Incom Inc. are promising photosensors for use in Ring Imaging CHerenkov (RICH) detectors, where a high gain, sub-mm position resolution and sub-100ps timing resolution are required…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-14 Yifan Jin , Alexander Kiselev , Sean Stoll

The strong-coupling regime of cavity-quantum-electrodynamics (cQED) represents light-matter interaction at the fully quantum level. Adding a single photon shifts the resonance frequencies, a profound nonlinearity. cQED is a test-bed of…

Single photon detectors are key for time-correlated photon counting applications [1] and enable a host of emerging optical quantum information technologies [2]. So far, the leading approach for continuous and efficient single-photon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Waqar Khan , Patrick P. Potts , Sebastian Lehmann , Claes Thelander , Kimberly A. Dick , Peter Samuelsson , Ville F. Maisi

Quantum transducers that can convert quantum signals from the microwave to the optical domain are a crucial optical interface for quantum information technology. Coherent microwave-to-optics conversions have been realized with various…

The applicability of LaBr3:Ce detectors for high count rate {\gamma}-ray spectroscopy is investigated. A 3"x3" LaBr3:Ce detector is used in a test setup with radioactive sources to study the dependence of energy resolution and photo peak…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-06-11 B. Löher , D. Savran , E. Fiori , M. Miklavec , N. Pietralla , M. Vencelj

Spatially-resolved photon counting of a twin beam performed by an iCCD camera allows for versatile tailoring the properties of the beams formed by parts of the original twin beam. Dividing the idler beam of the twin beam into three…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Pavel Pavlicek , Jan Perina , Vaclav Michalek , Radek Machulka , Ondrej Haderka

The realization of a high-efficiency microwave single photon detector is a long-standing problem in the field of microwave quantum optics. Here we propose a quantum non-demolition, high-efficiency photon detector that can readily be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Baptiste Royer , Arne L. Grimsmo , Alexandre Choquette-Poitevin , Alexandre Blais

While experimental measurements of photon correlations have become routine in laboratories, theoretical access to these quantities for the light generated in complex nanophotonic devices remains a major challenge. Current methods are…

Error-control-coding (ECC) techniques are widely used in modern digital communication systems to minimize the effect of noisy channels on the quality of received signals. Motivated by the fact that both communication and imaging can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-20 Xiaopeng Wang , Zunwang Bo , Zihuai Lin , Wenlin Gong , Branka Vucetic , Shensheng Han

We report on a new technique of a Multi-Cathode Counter (MCC) developed to search for hidden photon (HP) cold dark matter (CDM) with a mass from 5 to 500 eV. The method suggested in the assumption that hidden photons of the mass greater…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-16 A. V. Kopylov , I. V. Orekhov , V. V. Petukhov

Based on the four wave mixing, a three mode nonlinear system is proposed. The single photon blockade is discussed through analytical analysis and numerical calculation. The analytical analysis shows that the conventional photon blockade and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Hongyu Lin

We develop novel compressive coded rotating mirror (CCRM) camera to capture events at high frame rates in passive mode with a compact instrument design at the fraction of the cost compared to other high-speed imaging cameras. Operation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Amir Matin , Xu Wang